I dunno about the leap to "most" cable subscribers will end up getting it, Mike:

what makes you think that "most" subscribe to the extra tier of news channels?

maybe I'm the exception cuz I'm just cheap, but I get CBC NN free as part of basic, & I'm good with that. But I'll bet a lot more add on sports & movie channels than they do cable news; "most" are NOT news junkies.

Plus, some satellite & cable co's may not even offer it at all, much less as a default part of a sub-package. Sun now has to negotiate with each one individually.

Well, entertaining must mean different things to different people. I don't think fox is particularly entertaining. And, with SunTV...we all know who's going to be there: a bunch of talk jocks in their 50s, WK and Levant. Unless they suddenly become all way more entertaining TV then they've been, I don't see a huge draw.

And then there's Levant. Remember a guy named Morton Downey Jr.? Popular for a couple of years, but in the end they couldn't book anyone to guest on his show. He verbally abused them and kept touching their nuts. Levant will be like that, unless he can fake charming.

They will, and most cable subscribers will end up getting itGiven that Quebecor is Videotron and (at the moment) uses a lot of Rogers services (for mobile), I expect FNN to be force-fed down our gullets...